Randall Packer, Visiting Associate Professor
Video Double: Using Photo Booth (or similar Webcam video software), create a one minute video of yourself that constructs your “artistic alter ego:” the artist you want/choose/aspire to be! Choose a location that you find best expresses this constructed sense of identity: studio, campus, apartment, park, café, garden, etc. Do not write a script or… Read more »
The Collective Body: This micro-project involves the construction of a “collective body” made up of our body parts randomly reassembled and reconfigured into a single composite body. Once again using Photo Booth and your built-in Webcam, shoot six photographs of yourself close-up: (3) face – 2 profiles, one frontal, (2) each hand, (1) upper body. … Read more »
The goal of this micro-project is to create a real-time performance/manipulation of your image using Max 7. This manipulation represents the way in which we enter into the “media space” each and every day, in order to examine the idea of disembodiment as we drift from the physical to the digital world. Each day we… Read more »
As we use Adobe Connect for our virtual classroom, in which we will hold class while I am in Washington, DC, it will become clear that the”third space” is a vital medium for live performance. This micro-project, in preparation for Helen Varley Jamieson’s performance later this semester, will involve web-conferencing as a space for distributed… Read more »
As we have discussed this semester, we live partly in the physical world and partly in the virtual. Our desktop is more than just the place where we keep our folders and files, it is a world we personalize and inhabit. The desktop is an extension of who we are. You can see this… Read more »
In our series of experiments in the third space as a shared space, a place for collaboration, a forum for communication, we will create exercise performance events, this time under the guidance of Helen Varley Jamieson, who is directing the symposium performance. As preparation, Helen will lead the class in a set of exercises and… Read more »
we r now[here] by Helen Varley Jamieson Cyberformance Critique As the final assignment in our performance of “we r now[here] by Helen Varley Jamieson, each of you will write a Cyberformance Critique, due Monday, April 20th. I want you to first review the performance documentation. Then synthesize the entire process of how we collectively created,… Read more »
Overview of the Project Hyperessay The Project Hyperessay is intended to provide a step by step method to help catalyze the process of creating a final project. Using the form of the hyperessay, integrate a textual description with relevant graphics, video, sound, and links drawn from micro-projects, readings, discussion and other research to develop the… Read more »
A performance project that bridges your practice with the Internet How has the Internet as a space for production altered the way you work, conduct research, engage in dialogue, share ideas, and collaborate? And how has the study of performance, communication, social interaction, and dialogue encouraged you to think differently about your work and/or creative… Read more »